The inaugural Keystone Symposium About Rare Diseases will take place at the Vienna BioCenter from 11 to 14 November 2018.
The conference will examine the current and future bottlenecks to gene discovery, disease modeling, and therapeutic approaches for the estimated 7,000 known rare diseases, and suggest strategies to accelerate progress in this regard.

CORBEL's next Annual General Meeting will take place from 16 to 17 October in Paris.

The CORBEL project aims to establish shared services between the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures Biological and Medical Sciences Research Infrastructures (ESFRI BMS RIs)–which includes ECRIN–for the biomedical research community.

The next CORBEL Medical Infrastructure Users Forum (www.corbel-project.eu) will be held in Paris on 15 October, 2018.

The forum is meant to promote collaboration between research communities, funding bodies and medical research infrastructures; this year the event will focus on emerging technologies in the context of big data and personalised/stratified medicine

The conference will represent the opportunity to raise awareness of medical RIs and exchange with scientific communities

The next EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) will be held in Toulouse, France from 9 to 14 July 2018. ESOF is a biennial interdisciplinary general science meeting and the highlight of the European science calendar.

The European Research Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS) is organising its third bi-annual conference, “Translational Medicine 2017” from 24 to 26 September 2017 at Corinthia Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic.

This event, open to a wide range of stakeholders including academic researchers, funders, industry players and regulators, will bring together international experts to discuss the latest advancements in translational medicine.

Have you always wanted to learn more about the exciting developments currently happening in chemical biology and EU-OPENSCREEN?

The European Chemical Biology Symposium (ECBS) 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, brings together chemical biology researchers from screening and drug discovery, systems biology and therapeutic innovation. Young researchers are encouraged to present their work! Register and find out more: www.ecbs2017.eu/welcome.html

The 4th International Congress of Translational Research in Human Nutrition (ICTRHN) will take place in Clermont-Ferrand, France from 22 to 23 June 2017. The focus this year is on nutrition and cancer.

The main topics will include:

nutritional and metabolic risk factors identified in cancer development

nutritional care and diet support for the cancer patient during treatment

The CORBEL project will be holding a meeting on 20 June 2017 in Brussels to explore how the 11 participating Biological and Medical Sciences Research Infrastructures (BMS RIs) - including ECRIN - can stimulate innovation in Europe through providing open access to their key assets (e.g. resources, technologies, data and knowledge).